jennifercandon@yahoo.com Harvard, Massachusetts, United States
I try to recognize and to value the coincidences, the random, the unexpected. Highlighting those things sometimes feels unnatural because I have a tendency to prefer the predictable, the corrected, the ordered. I preserve the irregularities and movement of my hand - spotlighting, rather than erasing steps that make up my creative process and prioritizing happenstance. I don’t draw my ideas or sketch my project plans. I have tried, but it has never really worked. How do you draw what you can’t imagine or anticipate? How do you draw an interaction - a response to color rather than a foreseen composition? I create more easily when I have a pile of scraps in front of me - a stone soup of leftovers. To pare down and simplify is the hardest part for me: finding the essential lines and colors without overcomplicating things.
